(Beijing Comprehensive News) Li Shangfu, a Chinese State Councilor and Minister of Defense, who has not appeared publicly for a month, did not attend the collective study of the Politburo hosted by the Chinese official Wednesday (September 27).
China CCTV News Broadcasting screen shows that the Politburo of the Communist Party of China conducted the eighth collective learning on the World Trade Organization Rules and the World Trade Organization Reform of the afternoon.The Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong of the five Chinese members of China, Wu Zhenglong, and Wu Yinqin of the State Council attended the study meeting. Li Shangfu and Qin Gang, who was removed from foreign ministers at the end of July but still retained the title of State Councilor, did not list.
The State Councilor is not a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, but according to the practice, the State Council attended the collective study of the Politburo.Li Shangfu attended the sixth and seventh collective learning of the Politburo on June 30 and July 24, respectively.At these two meetings, he was sitting in the middle of Wang Xiaohong and Wu Zhenglong.
Bloomberg reported that Li Shangfu did not attend this time, further exacerbating the outside world's conjecture that he was investigating and was dismissed.
The British Financial Times quoted the three US officials and two people familiar with the matter on the 15th of this month that the United States believed that Li Shangfu was under investigation and had been lifted the post of Minister of Defense.
According to Sing Tao Daily, at the regular press conference of the Chinese Ministry of Defense held on Thursday afternoon, many overseas media asked Li Shangfu's whereabouts, but the spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense Wu Qian only responded with "unclear related situations".On the day of the official website of the Ministry of Defense's official website, there was no relevant question and answer content on the day of the report on the day of the press conference.
Li Shangfu's recent appearance was on August 29. At that time, he attended the 3rd China -Africa Peace Security Forum in Beijing and made a keynote speech.
Reuters reported on the 14th of this month that Li Shangfu was scheduled to participate in the annual defense cooperation annual meeting hosted by Vietnam from September 7th to 8th from September 7th to 8th.However, the Yue Fang was told before that Li Shangfu postponed the meeting for "health status".
As for Qin Gang, after he disappeared from the public vision for one month in late June this year, Chinese officials announced that their foreign ministers were eliminated.However, the official has not given any explanation on Qin Gang's dismissal.
